We have learnt a lot more about the practical impacts of Brexit in the last month. News is emerging of many European businesses changing their supply chains, sourcing goods from the rest of the European Union in place of the UK. We can expect more of that over the next two years, which could be …
Walk around Derry city centre and it seems as if it is constantly changing. On the positive side, a new hotel is being built, another recently opened and some of the beautiful buildings on Shipquay Street are being renovated. The downside is that well-known city centre businesses – Harry’s restaurant, the Bishop Street post office …
Exactly what did the just signed Brexit agreement between the UK government and the European Union actually mean? Quite simply, it depends who you ask. Continued on Derry Journal website, courtesy of Holywell Trust https://www.derryjournal.com/news/who-really-won-the-phase-one-talks-that-depends-on-who-you-are-asking-1-8293582
The abuse of children is one of the most awful cruelties imaginable. Yet it is commonplace. An astonishing 50,000 children have been identified as having been sexually abused in England and Wales in the short period between April 2012 and March 2014. But that is just the reported number. The actual figure, according to the …
Valerie Watts has hit the city council like a hurricane. The incoming chief executive has caused a stir, for the most part, by saying little more than the obvious. In particular, it was already well-known that the city council wants to off-load the ownership and/or the management of the City of Derry Airport. …
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Altnagelvin’s new £18m Laboratory and Pharmacy Services Centre is universally welcomed as an excellent replacement for poor quality facilities that were inefficiently spread across various buildings at the hospital campus. But praise for the building is not the same as saying that the way it was ordered and financed was right. Both the …
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A Personal View Where now for the airport? By Paul Gosling Derry City Council is commissioning a master plan for the development of land at the City of Derry Airport. This is part of a flurry of activity around the future of the airport. A new operations manager will take up …
A personal view by Paul Gosling It looks as if we will not have too long to wait before policing and justice are devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive. This raises the question of how well the PSNI meets the demands of modern policing and whether further reform is needed to make it …
Time for PSNI to re-evaluate progress: Derry Journal Read More »
A Personal View by Paul Gosling It is 2020 and we are taking a walk around Ireland’s most fabulous heritage city – Derry. What do we see? The Walled City is, of course, what has made Derry a top tourism destination for visitors from across Europe, America and Asia. They walk around …
River deep by Paul Gosling Visionary or short-sighted? McCormick Properties’ plans for developing over the city’s main artery, the Foyle, have divided people. Yes, we need jobs and investment – but do we need this investment at this location? It is a question that will determine how Derry will evolve …
Paul Gosling responds to calls for Derry’s urban regeneration company to be scrapped. On a recent trip to Leicester, I was taken to the top of the council offices to look at a sky line dominated by cranes. Bill Kirk – chief executive of Derry’s urban regeneration company Ilex – promises a similar horizon here …